Chess Beginner Checklist

Improving your chess involves learning a large number of new things.
You need to learns the rules of chess.
If you play in tournaments, you'll need to know what that's all about.
And you need to learn the tactics, the good moves, the techniques and strategies.

Chess Rules Checklist

The various aspects of the rules that you need to learn are in many areas.

You en passant capture by moving your pawn to an empty square, diagonally like it was a normal pawn capture diagonal move. Then you remove the enemy pawn from its square (it's 1 square behind where your pawn ends up).